Posts Tagged ‘weather’

You said “The weather’s changing”but something in your voicetold me that’s not all you had to tellAnd so on the potentialsad and tragic meaningsof that comment I began to dwellSome sickness in your bodydepression in your mindsurely were the things you could not sayI felt my spine a-shiverand swallowed hard with dreadabout your soon upcoming dying dayThough loathe to face this futureI looked into your eyesthinking you would need to be consoledBut saw that onion bagelshad filled your cheeks and throatand realized that you’d only meant “It’s cold”

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11 2009

i drove my auto through the nightone blustery winter’s evethe gusts gave press with all their mighti scarcely could believejust when my arms were near to breakfrom tugging on the wheeli spied a falling white snowflake(at least i did so feel)but as it neared the roadway shalethat dot grew much in sizeand turned into a stone of hailbefore my very eyesi tried to swerve and miss its pathbut it could not be doneit struck my hood with such a wraththe shot rang like a guni stopped the car and out i wentneeding to look twiceat the big, bashed bagel-shaped dentand onion-sized ball of ice

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03 2009

undaunted by the coming rain,the townfolk threw a party —whipped dairy toppings for the kidsand smoked fish for the heartymen who raised the churchand gave their tithes to heaven —all hearts puffed full like onion bagels,fermented with leaven